Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of flux. The resultant instability usually forces those affected to react to the disturbance and reassert a sense of equilibrium. By unravelling the operation of social and political mechanisms that are normally taken for granted, crises give rise to a number of questions: Were crises preceded by a generally accepted order? How did individuals confronted with a crisis react to the new state of affairs?

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:20 +0000

Date:

31 March 2012

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both individually and collectively. The voice of the ‘deviant’ is often absent from surviving sources and by extension from the historiography. In other instances, the voice of the ‘deviant’ is mediated through official records or constructed by those in positions of power.

Organiser(s):

Dr. Elaine Farrell and Dr. Conor Reidy

The Royal Body

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 4 April 2012

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Whitelock

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012 - 29 April 2012

This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the act of sealing and the recording of this act as well as questions relating to how, why and by whom seals were employed. A further important theme will be the manner in which seals relate to other sources: visual, material and documentary.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Phillipp R. Schofield; Dr Elizabeth New; Dr John McEwan

The making of a monarchy for the modern world

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:13:34 +0000

Date:

6 June 2012 - 8 June 2012

A conference at Kensington Palace

‘THERE will soon be only five kings left - the Kings of Diamonds, Heart, Spades and Clubs, and the King of England’. King Farouk of Egypt

Our big theme is monarchy and its relationship to the modern world. Monarchs were originally supposed to be men, and gods, and have undisputedly royal blood. Since 1688, though, this clearly hasn’t been the case in Britain.

Organiser(s):

Historic Royal Palaces (Lucy Worsley, Joanna Marschner, David Cannadine, Holger Hoock, Hannah Greig)

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

Date:

13 June 2012 - 14 June 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

Organiser(s):

historylab2012@gmail.com

Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies in the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:56:33 +0000

Date:

14 June 2012 - 16 June 2012

This colloquium, the fifth in a biennial series, offers an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplines to work together to enrich their mutual understanding of the intersections between public finance, politics and literature during Britain's 'financial revolution'. The term 'Britain' is used loosely to refer to all constituent parts of the United Kingdom and also to Ireland and the colonies. The term 'literature' is broadly defined to include newspapers, pamphlets, treatises, novels, plays and illustrations.

Organiser(s):

Chris Fauske, Communications Department, Salem State College; Rick Kleer, Department of Economics, University of Regina; Ivar McGrath, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin

Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World)

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:25:29 +0000

Date:

21 June 2012 - 23 June 2012

This serves as a call for papers for the fifth annual British Scholar Conference. The conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from Thursday, 21 June through Saturday, 23 June, 2012. This marks the first time that the conference will take place away from Austin, Texas, and the British Scholar Society is pleased to announce that it will be hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Organiser(s):

The British Scholar Society

UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:44:27 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great Britain - A United Kingdom?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Academic Conferences London Ltd

Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:24:32 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850. Scholars have made the case for distinctively late medieval/early modern instantiations of social and economic life, for example as “competence and competition,” a “competitive household economy,” or a “baroque economy”. But what is next?

Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:05:16 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Professor James Mills, Dr Yong-an Zhang, Dr. Joseph F. Spillane

Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:20:32 +0000

Date:

1 July 2012 - 3 July 2012

France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History

Organiser(s):

Stuart Carroll, Alan Forrest, Geoff Cubitt, Guy Halsall and Katherine Wilson and the Society for the Study of French History

The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:21:39 +0000

Date:

2 July 2012 - 5 July 2012

Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference’, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican Historical Society of Australia. The conference seeks to increase scholarly understandings of the religious and cultural adjustments that accompanied British political change and expansion.

Organiser(s):

University of Southern Queensland

Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:23:41 +0000

Date:

4 July 2012 - 6 July 2012

Confirmed Speakers:

James Hinton (Warwick)
Nick Hubble (Brunel)
Laura Marcus (Oxford)
Dorothy Sheridan (Sussex)

Call for Papers:

Organiser(s):

Fiona Courage (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex), Jessica Scantlebury (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex), , Nick Hubble (Brunel)

Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:58:56 +0000

Date:

5 July 2012 - 7 July 2012

The theme for the 2012 conference is 'Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles'. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool), Prof Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge), and Dr James Howard-Johnston (Oxford). The conference will take place at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies.

Liberal Wars: Call for Papers

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:34:52 +0000

Date:

6 July 2012 - 7 July 2012

Liberalism is not pacifism. Loosely-speaking liberal states - states that attach importance, at least internally, to individual autonomy - have frequently been willing to use military force; they have also, on occasion, fought aggressive wars of choice. But liberal ideology and practice are not at ease with military adventures: war of its very nature involves attacks on life; it usually requires some kind of trade-off between security and liberty; and it encourages a warrior ethos that draws upon non-liberal motivations.

Organiser(s):

a.d.t.cromartie@rdg.ac.uk

World Economic History Congress 2012 - Session: "Where is Central Asia in Long-Run Histories of Economic Development?"

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:28 +0000

Date:

9 July 2012 - 13 July 2012

A session addressing this question has been scheduled by the International Economic History Association as part of the XVIth World Economic History History Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 July 2012.

Organiser(s):

Jagjeet Lally

Who governs in Europe and the Americas?

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:55:50 +0000

Date:

15 November 2012 - 17 November 2012

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Organized by the Universities of Poitiers (MIMMOC), Caen (ERIBIA) and Paris Ouest Nanterre (CREA)

15-17 November 2012

Université de Poitiers, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Who governs in the Americas and in Europe?"

Organiser(s):

ontacts: Salah OUESLATI (salah.oueslati@univ-poitiers.fr ) Pierre GUERLAIN (pierre.guerlain@u-paris10.fr) Taoufik DJEBALI (taoufikd@gmail.com )